Baking Muffins – To Water or Not to Water

Using the blueberry muffin recipe from The Bread Bible, the unused empty muffin cups are half filled with water. According to Rose Levy Beranbaum, it “prevents the heat from being drawn to them and adds moisture”.

Left: Baked Saturday without water added. Right: Baked Sunday with water added.

It’s not necessary to the final flavor, but it did effect the final look of the muffins and surface texture. As they say, a picture says a thousand words.